How to Lie to a Language Model: The Rhetoric of the Bypass
When we think of a user attempting to hack an artificial intelligence system, the immediate image is of someone trying to break into the code or uncover a technical vulnerability. At first, we approached the issue in the same way: as a matter of cybersecurity, system architecture, and safeguards to
On Images That Remember Without History
Some time ago, we found ourselves scrolling through a late-night feed with no particular intention, letting images follow one another in a continuous flow. After a few minutes, a peculiar sensation emerged: faces changed, contexts shifted, yet the gestures remained strikingly similar. The same emoti
Barthes and Debord: The Cultural Work of Images in Late Modernity
For some time now, we have been engaging with the question of the image, observing its transformations, its drifts, and its increasingly central role in the construction of contemporary reality. This time, we aim to develop a reflection on how the visual entity has come to assert itself as a form of
Post-Trial. Reputation, Consensus, and Low-Resolution Truth in the Age of Distributed Trust
The End of Visual Evidence For a long time, visual evidence functioned as one of the primary infrastructures of trust. To see was to believe. The image, the document, the visible trace operated as guarantees of truth, as immediate confirmation of a fact, an event, an existence. This regime rested on
Aesthetics of Prediction: When Taste Is Calculated Before It Exists
Is taste still our own sensation, or in recent years has visual taste increasingly emerged as the outcome of an anticipatory process? Recommendation systems, behavioral analytics, trend forecasting, and automated mood boards often function as devices of aesthetic prediction, indicating what will be
The End of Function
The acceleration of artificial intelligence models is commonly interpreted as a threshold of loss: loss of human centrality, of work, of identity, of meaning. This reading, however, remains anchored to a historical conception of the human as a subject defined by operativity, function, and the necess
Omniscience on Demand: AI and the Collapse of the Learning Process
In recent years we have been witnessing a profound transformation in the relationship between knowledge, the subject, and the notion of limit. Artificial intelligence has entered the field of learning as a dominant presence and as an already complete cognitive environment, one in which knowledge is
After Evidence: Trust, Images, and the End of Visual Certainty
On January 1, 2026, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, published a year-end reflection on the platform: a visual and textual essay examining how artificial intelligence is radically reshaping the way we interpret images and videos online. In his statement, he makes a clear assertion: the era in which
The Artist as Channel
Increasingly, in contemporary artistic practice, the focus is no longer on the individual artwork but on the flow that contains it. A continuous stream of images, thoughts, gestures, positions taken, silences, and returns. Artists do not simply produce works, they build channels, channels of constan
Tram0 and the Craft of Infrastructure in Hong Kong
Tracing Layered Histories and Structural Logics Ding Lab is the most recent chapter of the ARTS·TECH Exhibition 3.0 and was created earlier this year. Artists Shan Wong (Flyingpig) and Kachi Chan reimagined a ‘ding ding’ tram as Tram0, a mobile exhibition made of LED installations, live video,
